Sentences with phrase «god by deeds»

I judge your god by his deeds, not his words.

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For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.

As Catholicism does it thinks by good deeds one gains God.

For the King of all the Gods created by GOD is the God Christ Jesus, our Lord and Savior and Redeemer of godly men, whose rigtheousness in Word and / or in Deeds will bring to them an abundancy of living many lives within the mainframes of the eternal 1st Domain, that is called by us as being the Atomic Cosmos.

They are revealed by God's historical and dialogical self - revelation by words and deeds, and in the fullness of time by God's eternal Son becoming flesh in a certain time and space of history; in church history under the guidance of the Holy Spirit they have to be witnessed to and developed through the living tradition (see the dogmatic constitution Dei Verbum, 2, 8).

I believe that one of the ways God brings his judgment on the wicked is by first exposing their evil deeds.

Can say that I believe in every thing that you disbelief of when it comes to the Creator and the Creation of universe, life and guidance, God has given me hearing, seeing, thinking and heart feelings to see and experience signs and small miracles to have faith in him and continue with good deeds I was told of in his Holy Book although am not perfect at that but nothing to lose but contrary to that there are more to gain in life and life after... For those disbelievers they lose their senses by being locked and blocked from such experiences... It is all about souls as verses speak for them selves;

Contrary to your claim that «works play no role whatsoever in getting us to heaven, Acts 26:20 depicts the whole gospel message: «that they should repent and turn to God and demonstrate their repentance by their deeds.»

This plan of revelation is realised by deeds and words having an inner unity: the deeds wrought by God in the history of salvation manifest and confirm the teaching and realities signified by the words, while the words proclaim the deeds and clarify the mystery contained in them.

God isn't the one who has or needs taming is the people who are in need of taming by God... and the weather could very well be the reaction of the behavior of people's deeds... so yea God gets uncomfortable and can cause disaster if he want to show a sign or tame the people...

and in the first part of Acts (chapters 1 - 12), and even with the main body of Q. For Mark, Jesus is no longer a prophet, mighty in word and deed before God and all the people»; he is from the beginning of his ministry the anointed Messiah, the Son of God, and by his calling and divine destiny the heavenly «Son of Man.»

We merely follow the ten commandments and believe that our God is fair and just and will judge us on what's in our hearts and by our deeds on earth.

But we can not either reduce God's speech to scripture alone, or for that matter ignore the fact that «speech» must itself be thought of in terms of «speech - acts,» the deeds which are performed by the fact of speaking at all...»:

We can only get true love from God, not by doing deeds or drumming up feelings.

Jesus taught the same thing both by proclamation and by simile: the decisive activity of God as king is now to be experienced by men confronted by his ministry in word and deed.

And finally, if we do not want the world to be submerged by a pagan secularism without God and without hope, we ought not to compile statistics and make forecasts, but should bear our Christian witness in the market place by word and deed.

More important, Fishbane's sensitive account, which does justice to our horror at Abraham's deed, can not handle the manifest fact that the angel speaks for God, Who swears by Himself and Who increases Abraham's blessing as a response to his hearkening to the divine voice.

Gregory summarizes his response to these two dipolar cases with this concise maxim: The pastor will help parishioners learn to do good deeds secretly insofar as they are motivated by the need for praise, but openly insofar as they become a means of the glorification of God and the edification of the neighbor.49

«But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone's conscience before God.»

For instance, it speaks of the earth and heaven, Lord - men, Hell and heaven, 3 good deeds and by implication its opposite the bad deeds, righteous soul and by implication the unrighteous soul, at the judgment day4; Light - darkness, believers - unbelievers; 5 God - creation; 6 servant - master; 7 Good - evil.8 There also the repetitive emphasis on the otherness of God as in the notions of «the Lord of the Throne of Glory Supreme», 9 «Lord of the Throne of Honor; «10 emphasis on His power «Lord of Power; «11 His reach «The Lord of the two Easts and Two Wests, «12 and so on.

«If you live by the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the flesh, you will live» I don't believe God takes away salvation, but we do have a role and this is what I have always struggled to understand.

5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; 6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds: 7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: 8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; Romans 2:1 - 9 (KJV)

In fact there seems to be a few things that the bible says we have been saved by... Jesus (Romans 5:9), grace and faith, (Ephesians 2:8) believing (mark 16:16), confessing that Jesus is Lord and believing Jesus was raised from the dead by God (Romans 10:9), Love God and your Neighbor (Luke 10:25 - 28), repentance (2 Corinthians 7:10), baptism (1 Peter 3:21), Endurance (Matthew 24:13), works (which is best described as actions and not good deeds)(James 2:24) and obeying (Matthew 7:21).

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

Almighty God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, maker of all things, judge of all men: We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we from time to time most grievously have committed, by thought, word, and deed, against thy divine Majesty, provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us.

Each miracle is less a sign to excite wonder than it is an act of genuine service, a deed done by the son of God to benefit those in whose behalf it is performed.

In 2 Timothy 3:16: All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching the truth, rebuking error, correcting faults, and giving instructions for right living, so that the person who serves God may be fully qualifed and equipped to do every kind of good deed.

If repentance & believing in Jesus is the only way to heaven, by Gods full grace and not good deeds it is the faith Any other way, any other Jesus, any other inspired book with a message from Jesus, is a cult.

Heinous deeds are committed by people of all faiths every day, by men and women who do not truly understand God, but one can not logically blame God for the deeds of mankind.

'' [The Christians] were in the habit of meeting on a certain fixed day before it was light, when they sang in alternate verses a hymn to Christ, as to a god, and bound themselves by a solemn oath, not to any wicked deeds, but never to commit any fraud, theft or adultery, never to falsify their word, nor deny a trust when they should be called upon to deliver it up; after which it was their custom to separate, and then reas semble to partake of food — but food of an ordinary and innocent kind.»

It is God, who wants to cure our souls (our souls are not in peace, because of the guilt, which we have accu - mulated by our evil deeds).

By extension every good deed, every struggle for justice and deliverance from oppression, every effort to care for and show concern about those who are in need, will be not merely a reflection of the divine mercy and righteousness but also an instrument for the bringing about of just such shalom or «abundance of life» for God's human children, So one might go on, almost without ceasing, to show that response in faith to the action of God in this vivid moment has its implications and applications for the whole range of human life and experience.

However, because of the sin of Adam and Eve, all men and women are separated from God by sin, a chasm that we can not fill by any actions or good deeds.

Josiah Royce with a quite different philosophical orientation from Ritschl expressed the same truth when he described the Church as the community which is sustained by its memory of the atoning deed of Jesus.21 What is supremely important here is that knowledge of God's forgiveness does not depend upon a private and subjective illumination of the individual believer alone.

I have asked God for clear understanding on baptism MANY times and still find myself in a pickle over it so conclusion is «do what they that were mentioned as saved did» I already TRUST IN CHRIST as my savior, knowing I can not earn my salvation by works or deeds.

It can therefore perform its very own deed to which it is called, namely to receive God from God through God, only in this way, and thus all truth of man as a free being proclaims either this liberation of freedom by God or the freedom by which man becomes guilty before God.

But Jesus is already able to communicate to others in word and deed the powers of God's Kingdom; one who is taught or healed by him is already within the Kingdom.

RD.. How path - et - ic to see your hate and fear driving you to death...!?! Man pull your self together and have the courage to face the returns of your deeds... Wars were always there in life whether were religious or not so stop doing it on your self... Beside learn to wish people well whether you agree or disagree with might you succeed in life rather than being a loser... by being a cowered... My posts were meant for the friendly people I had known for some time, whom I found they were full of compassion and not for black hearted one's like you who hate all God creations...

29 This generalization is possible because of the specific content he assigns to the christological aim: «The aims given to Jesus and actualized by him during his active ministry were such that the basic vision of reality contained in his message of work and deed was the supreme expression of God's eternal character and purpose.»

Praise to you, 0 Osiris, Lord of Eternity, King of the Gods... Who appeared on the throne of his father like Re when he shines forth in the horizon and gives light in the face of darkness His sister protected him, he who repelled the enemies and who caused the deeds of the mischief - maker to retreat by the power of her mouth...

It is certain because God has promised it, and it is certain because it is required by wisdom and justice in order to give to each creature a just retribution for his deeds.

The Joint Declaration emphasizes, however, that God accepts us by grace alone through faith in Christ's saving deed and not on the basis of our merit.

In any event, we have no right to refuse this opportunity to any who, either by their own adult act of commitment or through the earnest decision of their parents, can be brought within the ambit of the Christian community where God's care, as made available through Christ's deed in the world, may have its effect.

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority.

The Collect for the Day, by the very amplitude of the gift prayed for, makes clear that the deed of God's power in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is in a continuum of grace whose endless field of operation is nothing less than the restoration of human life to its Godly intention.

God has addressed his messages to generations through chosen one's to remind and warn those evil doers and the ones who are astray to come back to the truth but when messanger gives up on his people God would bring upon them heavy natural disasters, losses and grieves... there among any religions or branches of religions you will find people worship and do good deeds for the sake of God and would do all could to raise his name and belief... there are others who careless for it as a religion or faith but taking advantage of the posts for their own personal vast interest or the gangs interests as named by you... «Those are as a Walves using the Sheeps Skins in Disguise for hunting and feeding its greeds».

Love of God and neighbor is the gift given through Jesus Christ by the demonstration in incarnation, words, deeds, death and resurrection that God is love — a demonstration we but poorly apprehend yet sufficiently discern to be moved to a faltering response of reciprocal love.

The Jews are not by nature children of God because they are human beings, but have become children by God's free choice and by the deeds which He has done for them.

To describe the Church as a community of memory and hope, sharing in the common memory not only of Jesus Christ but also of the mighty deeds of God known by Israel, expecting the coming into full view of the kingdom on earth and / or in heaven; to describe it further as the community of worship, united by its direction toward one God, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit yet worshipped more as Father or as Son or as Holy Spirit in this or that part of the community; to describe it as a community of thought in which debate and conflict can take place because there is a fundamental frame of agreement and because there are common issues of great import — to do all this and the much more that needs to be done would be to essay the work of a large part of theology.

The shape of the deed of God, he declares, engenders a total human life in organic congruity with itself; and to be a Christian is to have one's life in its shape determined by the shape of what God has done.